Improvement in trace-carriers



P. BURNS.

TRACE-CARRIER. v No.182,161. PatentedfSept. 12, 1876..

NFETERS. FHUTUUTHOGFPHER. WASHINGTON, Dv C.

UNITED TATEs PATENT OFFICE PETER BURNS, OF SYRAGUSE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRACE-CARRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 182,161, dated September 12, 1876; application tiled August 11, 187,6.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER BUENs, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented a certain Improvement in Trace-Carriers, of which the following is a specication:

This invention relates to that kind of traceoarriers which consist in the main of springhooks attached to the hip-straps of the harness in suitable manner for ready suspension of the traces therefrom.

My improvement consists, first, in a peculiar construction and mode of connecting the hooks, the springs, and the plate which forms the base for securing the device to the harness; second, in providing the said base-plate with studs for steadying the several straps at their intersection, as well as for making its attachment more secure.

In the annexed drawings, Figure l is a 1ongitudinal section of :my improved tracecarrier. Fig. 2 is a bottom view thereof, show ing one end in the condition before the application of the spring which actuates the hook. Fig. 3 is a transverse section ot' the same. Figs. 4 and 5 show modifications of my invention.

The same letters of reference are used in all the figures in the designation of identical parts.

A refers to the plate to which the hooks B are pivoted. The central portion of the plate has a circular and exteriorly convex contour, with a central aperture for the insertion of a rivet, a, for securing it centrally to the harness-straps O and D and sweat-leather E. The extreme ends of the plate are also provided with rivet-holesfor riveting it to the strap D, while the central portion has two studs, al al, cast on it for engaging holes in the strap C, ,on opposite sides of strap D, as shown best in Fig. 3. The shanks of the hooks B terminate in T-heads b, adapted to pass through' longitudinal slots 12in the plate A, and fitting transverse sockets a3, formed upon the under side of the plate, as best shown in Fig. 2. rEhe heads b are semicircular in cross-section, and their flat under sides bear against iiat springs Efwhich are placed in shallow recesses in the under side of the plate, and are secured byprongs a4 cast on the plate, and subsequently bent down' over the springs. The free ends of the hooks are held in close contact with the `plate by the action of the springs. peculiar form clearly shown in Fig. 1, spreading` both upon the inner and the outer side.

This darin g construction has two objects in view: first, it prevents the tail ofthe animal from being caught in the trace-carrier; and, secondly, it causes the draft of the cockeyes of the traces to come at points where it Will tuted, it being secured by the central rivet a.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A trace-carrier composed of a plate for riveting it to the harness, provided with studs, as described, and a spring hook or hooks, the free ends of the latter terminating in a atfaced head made Haring both upon the inner and the outer side, substantially as and for the purpose specied.

2. The trace-carrier plate A, having studs a1 a1 integral therewith, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to the foregoing in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PETER BURNS. Witnesses:

W. S. HUNTINGTON, W. B. BURNS.

These ends have the 

